Ennui Quote by David Mitchell

“It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I was always just there. In a perpetual nihilistic malaise of ennui and lots of other SAT words.”

— Aaron Goldfarb

“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I…

— Mary Shelley

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone’s life was like a river; you had to flow…

— Eva Ibbotson

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“I felt indestructible, or at least undestroyed, more alive than I'd ever been.”

— Rob Sheffield

“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”

— haruki murakami

“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip into an…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently.”

— Virginia Woolf

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley